With record-high turnover, it pays to predict which finalists will likely become early turnover. Improve Your Hiring Results By Predicting Each Candidate’s “Time To Turnover” Amazingly, some companies predict current employee turnover with a 95% accuracy rate. However, I suggest that it’s time to expand our turnover predictions to the …
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Candidate Exit Interviews – Getting Feedback From Your Recruiting Customers (The #2 barrier to recruiting excellence)
The two dumbest things in recruiting are not soliciting candidate feedback and not assessing new-hire performance (a.k.a. quality of hire). Unfortunately, most in recruiting are not even aware of the practice of “candidate exit interviews,” soliciting new hires and candidate feedback after completing each hiring process. Unfortunately, gathering exit interview …
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It surprises most that a 4-day/32-hour workweek creates a problem for every hour worked under it. Let me state upfront that if you have a giddy Pollyanna attitude toward a four-day workweek, this article is not for you. Yes, the 4-Day/32-hour workweek is one of the hottest new trends in today’s …
Read More »Reduce Your Talent Shortage… By Offering Candidate Incentives (The complete guide to recruiting incentives)
In a talent shortage, when you must increase participation in recruiting, learn to pay for it! During these extremely challenging recruiting times, there is ample proof that even small incentives will increase participation rates during important recruiting steps. “What gets rewarded gets done.” When looking at the big picture, it’s …
Read More »Requiring Any Bachelor’s Degree Is BS… Says College Professor
I see that my 1998 degree from N. Korean U in Cannabis Growing with a 2.0 meets your bachelor's degree requirement?
Read More »Do Your Part… Recruit Ukrainians For Remote Work
(The complete guide for recruiting Ukrainian refugees) Feeling helpless? Here’s a 2 for-1 opportunity to bolster sourcing and aid desperate refugees. This is an action piece – whose goal is to nudge the reader into taking immediate action. If you have a strong desire to help the Ukrainians, here is …
Read More »Inflation And War Will Damage Recruiting, Retention And Productivity
Distractions like high commute costs and the Ukrainian war lower productivity and hurt retention/recruiting.
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PDQ boomerang re-recruiting is the most powerful undiscovered opportunity in all recruiting.
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Boldly obscure names, age indicators, voices, etc. – to limit most conscious and unconscious screening biases. Diversity hiring fails to meet its goals regularly. Less than 2% of surveyed companies recently reported that they were “confident that they were achieving their DEI goals.” One of the primary reasons why diversity …
Read More »Knowing The Business – The #1 Driver Of Performance In HR And Recruiting
This comprehensive guide to “knowing the business” will jumpstart both your performance and your career.
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